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Comfort
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church Dec 4, 2011 Mark 1:1-8 Isaiah 40:1-11 Prophets both attract and repel me in equal measure. I am confident that I would not want to invite John the...
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The Apocalypse of Advent
A sermon preached on the First Sunday of Advent at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho December 2, 2012 Jeremiah 33:14-16 Luke 21:25-38 Welcome to Advent! I know some of you think “Advent”...
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Silent, In Between Time
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church December 9, 2012 Mal 3:1-4 Luke 1:5-25, 57-80 If pastors were honest about it, Zechariah is probably one of the stories we like the least. He is...
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Friday Five: Advent Edition
Here is the prompt from over at Revgalblogpals: “Those of you who are my friends on Facebook know I’ve been trying to post Advent music in this season, which is no small trick because, as you well...
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JOY to the world
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on Dec 16, 2012. Luke 1:39-56 I thought I knew where this sermon was going to go. And then came the news Friday about another...
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The Perfect Family
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church December 1, 2013 Matthew 1:18-25 Have you ever looked at the families in Christmas advertisements and commercials? Or ads for the perfect...
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Stumped
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho, December 8, 2013 Isaiah 11:1-10 Matt 3:1-12 These passages have had me thinking about tree chopping this week. Sometimes it...
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ADVENT(ure)
So, each year on Epiphany, the day the church celebrates the wisemen’s visit to Jesus, our congregation passes out stars that have words written on them. People are invited to pray through the word on...
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Annunciation, the Musical
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho. December 15, 2013 Luke 1:39-55 A few weeks ago, NBC aired a ‘recorded live’ presentation of the Sound of Music. And despite what...
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Friday Five: Cinnamon and Panic
Here is the prompt from over at Revgals for the Friday Five: “As we prepare in our churches and homes for Christmas to arrive, we are moving through Advent. It is a time of waiting, expectation and...
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Be Born In Us Today
A sermon preached at Southminster in Boise, Idaho on December 21, 2014 2 Samuel 7:1-11 Luke 1:26-38 (Here’s the video we showed in worship today). King David wanted to build a Temple for God. The Ark...
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Advent Word of the Day
I shared this on Facebook, but here is an idea I stole from my friend Teri Peterson. Each day during Advent and the Christmas season, here is a word you can use in your prayer/devotional time. Take a...
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Empire Strikes Back
An Advent sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho December 6, 2015 Isaiah 40:1-11 The Empire Strikes Back is not my favorite of the original three Star Wars movies. The ‘new...
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Voice
Today’s word is voice. This picture of me testifying at the statehouse this past winter on behalf of Add the Words is the image that comes to mind for me about voice. It is a privilege to live in a...
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Return of the Jews
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho December 12, 2015 Ezra 1:1-4, 3:1-4, 10-13 As we’ve learned throughout the fall, the Jews had been carted off to exile in Babylon...
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A Force Awakens
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho December 20, 2015 Luke 1:5-13, 57-66 If pastors were honest about it, Zechariah is probably one of the stories we like the least....
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Open Hearted Advent
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church December 4, 2016 Advent 2 Joel 2:12-13, 28-29 The Book of Joel is best read in one sitting. I invite you to look through it this week. It’s a...
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The Proclaimers
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise. Idaho. Isaiah 61 You may be more familiar with this text because of who quotes it, rather than from its own context in Isaiah. This is...
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A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian in Boise, Idaho. Ezekiel 37:1-14 December 9, 2017 Our passage from Ezekiel’s prophecy is full of evocative language and imagery. We can picture a valley...
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A sermon preached on a snowy first Sunday of Advent at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Dec 2, 2018 Habakkuk 1: 1-7, 2:1-4, 3:17-19 I’m gonna bet that for many of you, this is the first...
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